The iShares Staked Ethereum Trust begins trading on March 12, offering investors both price exposure and staking rewards — while a tiered fee waiver structure positions BlackRock aggressively against competing Ethereum products.
South Korea's National Tax Service is building one of the more aggressive crypto surveillance systems seen anywhere.
New filings for unemployment benefits in the United States declined slightly last week, reinforcing the picture of a labor market that remains historically tight even as economic uncertainty persists.
On March 11, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that formally ends what SEC Chairman Paul Atkins called decades of "regulatory turf wars."
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana funds collectively attract positive flows for the first time in three sessions, even as prices remain under pressure and the Fear & Greed Index sits deep in fear territory.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is drawing a hard line between traditional banking and digital assets. On March 11, 2026, FDIC Chairman Travis Hill announced a proposed rule that would formally exclude payment stablecoins from all federal deposit insurance.
Stani Kulechov, founder of the Aave protocol, is pushing for a structural overhaul of how decentralized autonomous organizations govern themselves - and the timing is no coincidence.
Foundry Digital, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group (DCG) and operator of the largest Bitcoin mining pool in the world, announced it will launch an institutional-grade Zcash (ZEC) mining pool in April 2026.
Australia's financial regulator is drawing a hard line on how the crypto industry should be governed — and it has little patience for firms trying to use technological jargon to sidestep existing rules.
A French couple in their late 50s was robbed of nearly one million euros in Bitcoin after three armed men forced their way into their home in Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, a quiet suburb near Versailles, in a calculated act of physical extortion that is becoming disturbingly routine in France.
Bitwise Asset Management's Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has laid out a detailed - and deliberately provocative - case for Bitcoin reaching $1 million per coin.
Wells Fargo has quietly moved to stake its claim in the digital dollar race. On March 9, the bank submitted a trademark application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for "WFUSD" - a name that, by most analyst readings, telegraphs the development of a proprietary stablecoin or deposit token backed by the U.S. dollar.



